For generations, the Windsors have lived on the family's grand estate in Crestwood, South Carolina, as intertwined with local life as sweet tea and pecan pie. Now, on the anniversary of her daughter Emily's death, Sarabess Windsor believes she may be the last to carry the family name - unless she can find her second daughter, Trinity, who disappeared fifteen years ago.

Trinity grew up as Trinity Henderson, adopted by the Windsor foreman and his wife. Trinity was conceived not out of love, but out of Sarabess's desperate attempt to prolong Emily's life by providing a bone marrow donor. On her fifteenth birthday, Trinity ran away and hasn't been seen in Crestwood since. But the town has never forgotten her...especially not handsome lawyer Jake Forrest. And although Jake has no desire to help selfish Sarabess Windsor, the thought of seeing his childhood friend again fills a void in his heart that Jake didn't even know existed.

Trinity swore never to return to Crestwood. Not for the mother who callously abandoned her, not for the late father she hardly knew, not for the huge family trust she stands to inherit. But some ties - to a place, to a past, to the people we once were and dreams we once had - can never be fully broken. And as family secrets are revealed, and desires old and new come to light, Trinity may discover the one thing she never expected to find in Crestwood: a place to call home at last.

Thirty years ago wealthy Sarabess Windsor conceived a second daughter, Trinity, to provide bone marrow to her firstborn, Emily--then gave Trinity to foster parents. Now, years after Emily's death, Sarabess wants to find the child she gave up--and enlists attorney Jake Forrest to help her. Trinity is not interested in looking back, but childhood friend Jake is persuasive--and healing the hurts of the past just could lead to a different future for them both. Even the reliable Laural Merlington can't save this story, which is a melodrama on a grand scale. Her interpretations of Trinity and Jake aren't especially memorable, but her portrayals of the older characters are quite wonderful. åber-villainess Sarabess, in particular, stands out. C.E.W. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

 

Fern Michaels is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Fool Me Once, Sweet Revenge, The Nosy Neighbor, Pretty Woman, and dozens of other novels and novellas. There are over seventy million copies of her books in print. Fern Michaels has built and funded several large day-care centers in her hometown, and is a passionate animal lover who has outfitted police dogs across the country with special bulletproof vests. She shares her home in South Carolina with her four dogs and a resident ghost named Mary Margaret.